I saw it on my way into town, somebody put out a casio WK-3000 piano out on the curb for free, with the stand power cord and even manual. The craziest part is its fully functional. Not a darn thing wrong with it 'cept some dust. Now I have to learn piano.

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    Guess it depends on the VST. The marching arts use MainStage as a staple, and their onboard sounds are shit. They had an update recently that drastically improved/replaced a lot of piano sounds, but they’re recording/pop tune pianos. Very good, but don’t act like a piano through the dynamic range and release. There are some good piano VSTs, but you need to purchase multiple VSTs to get all the right sounds you want. I may use one piano VST for one movement and a different high quality one for another movement. Through my experience with a variety of industry standard piano VSTs played through any number of industry standard DAWs, I still haven’t found a setup that perfectly matches the nature of playing a piano and how it reacts to your fingers the way a Yamaha piano patch does. Take a Yamaha piano patch and put it through whatever filters you want, and you can get a highly realistic player experience with all the mushy gushy reverb or anything else you want.

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      I gotta admit, I’m not actually a musician (not since high school, anyway), so I’ll defer to your expertise. My perspective is more of somebody who remembers when SoundBlasters and whatnot used to matter and how they now don’t.